{"id":40137,"date":"2025-09-03T04:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40137\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T04:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:50:15","slug":"farmers-need-price-clarity-as-astronomical-money-tied-up-in-cattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40137\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers need price clarity as \u2018astronomical\u2019 money tied up in cattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">There will be no farmer able to feed a young bull this autumn at current prices without a factory commitment: ICMSA\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Beef supplies across all main beef-producing countries are extremely low, with some countries at their lowest levels in 50 years\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3c897a4b-9d94-4c85-af64-3c22c9e53ada.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Beef supplies across all main beef-producing countries are extremely low, with some countries at their lowest levels in 50 years<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Farmers would want to get some assurance on prices \u201cas the money tied up in sheds of cattle is astronomical\u201d, according to Michael O\u2019Connell, Chairperson of the ICMSA Livestock Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He said that with a \u201cstrong\u201d live export trade, there will be no farmer able to feed a young bull this autumn at current prices without a factory commitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be no farmer able to feed a young bull this autumn at current prices without a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[30654,79,30655,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-40137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-beef-prices","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-catherina-cunnane","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}